Quotes about Cloth

The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.

but he pulled free of the linen cloth and ran away naked.

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.

The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.

In 1931, when Anwar was twelve, Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal on his way to London to negotiate the fate of India. The ship stopped in Port Said, whereupon Egyptian journalists besieged the ascetic leader. The correspondent for Al-Ahram marveled that Gandhi was wearing "nothing but a scrap of cloth worth five piasters, wire rim glasses worth three piasters

the sensuous heat of early afternoon made blinding freckles on the checkered luncheon cloth.

ALNAGAR  (A'LNAGAR)    A'LNAGER, or A'LNEGER.n.s.[from alnage.] A measurer by the ell; a sworn officer, whose business formerly was to inspect the assize of woollen cloth, and to fix the seals appointed upon it for that purpose; but there are now three officers belonging to the regulation of cloth-manufactures, the searcher, measurer, and alneger.Dict.   ALNAGE  (A'LNAGE)   n.s.[from aulnage, or aunage, Fr.] Ell-measure